Lyrics:
(Words and Music by Joan Baez)
A myth has just been shattered
Upon the four winds scattered
Back to some storybook
From whence it came
Vicarious
you're living vicariously
(Vicarious, vicarious)
(Vicarious, vicarious)
And that's when I realized
What was before me
A life worth living
That I made
This seems to be in our way
My vicarious virtues are there
The time has come once again
When vicarious virtues retake
My hand & take me away to
Where
There you stand
Watching me
Under the holy tree
There you stand
Watching me
There you stand watching me
Vicarious empathy
A sense of advocacy
In
And mine I can't let go
I couldn't if I tried-so I'm
Living through vicarious eyes
For times I wanted to know
You're a mirror of a life
That only
got so much to learn
I've been a rebel regarding what is vicarious life
I've got to get the quick conduct tonight-
And discard all habitual needs
I
train you to kill
To be a pin on some map
Some vicarious thrill
The old hate the young
That's the whole heartless thing
The old pick wars
We die in
train you to kill
To be a pin on some map
Some vicarious thrill
The old hate the young
That's the whole heartless thing
The old pick wars
We die in
internal screams - keep your distance, stay away! Antisocial worker, consumed by vicarious trauma. To help, at what cost?
panic panic
Dangerous
Oppression
Angerous
Repression
Vicarious
Depression
Luxurious
Addiction
Look at all over you
You didn't make it through
Your way got
Can I live
Inside your mind
Can I live
Vicarious
Watch the world spin
Through a veil of tears
I'm trapped inside this reality
Stuck in a life that
the surface chaos thrives
In every pulse a truth derives
We crave the pain the blood the cries
Vicarious through others' lives
I want to see the world collapse
orders
Imitation makes you a vicarious voter
Trouble with the painted life
pulled from the wreckage
We are not alone
We are lovers broken
We are vicarious dreams
We are tumblin' in space, out of control
Into the mystery
Into
You're taking credit
For circumstance
Your genetic merit
And entitlements
Lonely purgatory
Of expectations
Vicarious pleasures
and imitations
Sign
and I'm afraid of heights
I don't want to be lived through
A vicarious occasion
Please open the window
Visiting hours are 9 to 5 and if I show up
pedestal is high and I'm afraid of heights
I don't want to be lived through
A vicarious occasion
Please open the window
Visiting hours are nine to five
back in the boat yeah
Vicarious pleasure in my brain
Fantastic life never the same
Identity come set it free
Come set me out to mystery
Mistert
validation is in living your own life
Vicarious existence is a fucking waste of time
So I send this song to the offended
I said what I meant and I've never
you landed
And everything vicarious seemed to build you up
You grabbed my crown and got everything you wanted
And one day you'll see that you've
set me
Free that you must
Come to be
Volatile
Visceral
Vicarious
And on the shores of a desert world
In the moonlight
I lay down my head
Surrender
We were sons of insurrection
Doomed to face the dark alone
Till vicarious perfection
Dearly won was made our own
So where's your landslide
vicarious redemption.
Avoid the fall from grace. A view replaced.
Silence consumed us. The bloodline.
Abhor the absolute
Created and thrown under.
Trying
Cardboard city
Who gives a shit
Cardboard city
It's a hit
Hoards of the medias
Whirring their cameras
Living vicarious lives
Tasting it
Cardboard
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